Aasta Hansteen spar

The Aasta Hansteen spar is a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit for natural gas operated by Equinor located 186 miles offshore in the Norwegian Sea.

The Aasta Hansteen platform is a truss spar type allowing condensate to be stored in the hull below sea level and offloaded to a shuttle tanker.

The Aasta Hansteen spar exports the natural gas from the field through the Polarled[6] pipeline to the Nyhamna processing plant on the Norwegian coast.

It was then towed vertically to the Aasta Hansteen gas field 300 kilometres (190 mi) off Bodø at the northwest coast of Norway.

[2] Originally called the Luva gas field and later renamed after Aasta Hansteen, it was discovered in 1997, approximately 300 km off the coast of Norway.

Aasta Hansteen in Digernessundet outside Stord during the inshore hook-up phase in 2018.